earthquake-the shaking and trembling that results from movements in the Earths crust stress-a force that acts on rock to change the volume or shape shearing-causes massive amount of rock to break and slip to change its volume tension-a force that stretches rock deformation-a change in the shape of earth's crust fault-a break in earth's crust strike-slip fault-rocks on the
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2.1 Earth's Crust In Motion
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earthquake-the shaking and trembling that results from movements in the Earths crust
stress-a force that acts on rock to change the volume or shape
shearing-causes massive amount of rock to break and slip to change its volume
tension-a force that stretches rock
deformation-a change in the shape of earth's crust
fault-a break in earth's crust
strike-slip fault-rocks on the